Running on Borrowed Time

Cold air through the cracked window

Dashboard glow on my skin

County lights in the mirror again

And I swear I ain’t going back there

Engine cryin’ like it know my sins

Half tank left and I’m burnin’ it quick

Phone keep buzzin’, I don’t wanna answer

Too much blood in the rearview lens

Streetlights cut like prison bars

Blue and red paint scars on the dark

I ain’t runnin’ for fun, I’m runnin’ from ghosts

Whole damn town wanna tear me apart

Foot down heavy, tires scream prayers

Backroad heaven mixed with despair

Every exit feel like a setup now

Every shadow look like feds somewhere

Helicopter paint circles above

Like God tryna point where I was

But the night move fast when your heart unstable

And the fear hit harder than drugs

Tell me what’s left when the hope burns out?

What’s left when your name get loud?

I hear the radio chatter crackle

Like the devil got my route mapped out

White lines don’t save you

They just blur where you been

Speedometer buried past ninety

Still can’t outrun what’s within

Sirens sing like violence

Concrete shake beneath my wheels

I ain’t scared of dyin’ tonight

I’m scared this pain too real

Rain hit hard on the windshield glass

Wipers fight but the storm too thick

Heart on overload, chest cave in

Hands locked tight till my fingers split

I pass small towns half asleep

Porch lights glow while the dogs all bark

Nobody know what I carry inside

Just another black shape in the dark

Dispatch say the car went eastbound

But I cut south through the riverside dirt

Almost lost it around mile marker twelve

Front end slid and the guardrail flirted

I could stop right now, hands up high

Let the cold steel kiss my spine

But there’s something waiting at the end of this road

And I swear I still got time

If the sunrise catches me first

Tell my mother I tried

Tell the world I was more than the rumors

More than the fear I hide

And if these headlights fade to black

Before I reach that door

At least they’ll know I kept moving

Even when my soul felt torn

White lines don’t save you

But they carry broken men

Through the static and the sirens

Till the road just swallows them

Red and blue behind me flashin’

Like judgment in the rain

Still I push this wreck forward

With a heart full of gasoline